Travel in and out of Port Columbus is running mostly on schedule this afternoon despite a huge
storm along the East Coast that threatens to foul travel for Thanksgiving.

“Everything’s running very smoothly,” airport spokeswoman Angie Tabor said. “We are not
seeing any sort of widespread cancellations to the East Coast, or anything like that, so I think we
dodged a bullet on this one.”

In mid-afternoon, there were a handful of departing and arriving flights from Port Columbus
that were delayed, including two flights to New York’s LaGuardia Aiport and a flight to
Philadelphia. One incoming flight from Newark, N.J., had been canceled.

Such delays or cancelations are “pretty normal,” Tabor said. “Any day, there might be a delay
or cancelation here or there for any number of reasons.”

The Federal Aviation Administration is reporting wind and low cloud ceiling delays for
departing flights from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., Newark International
Airport in New Jersey, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Philadelphia
International Airport in Pennsylvania, ranging from 30 minutes to an hour and a half.

In Columbus, passengers at the airport are moving efficiently through the security
checkpoints, Tabor said.

She advises passengers to check with airline websites for updates on the status of their
flight before coming to the airport to make sure they are on time.